Miscellaneous

By Marcello Cherchi, MD PhD

This section of the website contains pages on topics that do not fit neatly into the categories of “Diagnoses,” “Testing” or “Treatment.”

1. ✅ The field and its practitioners, logistics and infrastructure

2. ✅ Epidemiology of disequilibrium

3. Diagnostic process

   1. ✅ Taking a patient history in otoneurology
   2. ✅ Symptom terminology.  Does the description of “dizziness” matter? Triggers, timing, etc.
   3. ✅ Diagnostic thinking
   4. ✅ Diagnostic uncertainty: theoretical considerations
   5. ✅ Diagnostic uncertainty: practical considerations
   6. ✅ Questionnaires and diagnostic algorithms
   7. ✅ Artificial intelligence and machine learning in otoneurology
   8. ✅ Preliminary diagnostic algorithm

4. Physiology, phenomena and concepts

   1. Overviews of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology
      1. ✅ Overview of the auditory system
      2. ✅ Overview of the vestibular system
   2. ✅ Nystagmus, definition and characterization
   3. ✅ Vestibulo-ocular reflex
   4. ✅ Vestibular tuning spectrum

5. Specific eye movements, normative ranges

   1. ✅ Spontaneous nystagmus, normative ranges
   2. ✅ Saccades, normative ranges
   3. ✅ Gaze evoked nystagmus, normative ranges
   4. ✅ Smooth pursuit, normative ranges
   5. ✅ Optokinetic nystagmus, horizontal, normative ranges
   6. ✅ Optokinetic nystagmus, vertical

6. Emerging/new developments

   1. ✅ Other vestibular evoked potentials
   2. ✅ Better visualization of torsional nystagmus with contrast limiting adaptive histogram equalization

7. Resources

   1. ✅ How to find vestibular rehabilitation services
   2. ✅ Other relevant websites and books
   3. ✅ Book: Otoneurology and Vestibular Medicine, a Clinical Handbook

8. Bureaucratic issues

   1. ✅ Physical therapy in Illinois no longer requires a referral
   2. ✅ Hearing aids are now available over-the-counter
   3. ✅ Functional capacity evaluation (FCE)
   4. ✅ Disability
   5. ✅ Driving

9. Historical figures

   1. ✅ Alexander, Gustav
   2. ✅ Barany, Robert
   3. ✅ Corti, Alfonso
   4. ✅ Dix, Ruth Margaret
   5. ✅ Epley, John
   6. ✅ Eustachio, Bartolomeo
   7. ✅ Ewald, Ernst Julius Richard
   8. ✅ Frenzel, Hermann Gotthold Walter
   9. ✅ Fresnel, Augustine-Jean
   10. ✅ Goldberg, Jay
   11. ✅ Hallpike, Charles Skinner
   12. ✅ Meniere, Prosper
   13. ✅ Nylen, Carl Olof Siggesson
   14. ✅ Robinson, David
   15. ✅ Ruttin, Erich
   16. ✅ Scarpa, Antonio
   17. ✅ Schuknecht, Harold Frederick
   18. ✅ von Bekesy, Georg

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